Anti-Poverty & Homelessness

Geography of poverty (GOP) or poverty geography is a branch of human geography, which studies the geographical patterns, distribution characteristics, areal types and evolution mechanism of poverty and the relationship with geographical environment as well as antipoverty measures.

Wealth and income are disproportionately distributed among the global population. This has direct consequences on consumption patterns and consumption-based carbon footprints, resulting in carbon inequality.

Drawing from his own extensive ethnographic and quantitative research, Desmond outlines the trends that led to the current situation: rising housing costs, stagnant or falling incomes among the poor, and a shortfall of federal housing assistance.

The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working towards a more equal distribution of incomes are part of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Adequately addressing the grand challenge of poverty requires addressing resource scarcity. However, efforts to provide resources as a means of poverty alleviation have met with mixed success.

The development of renewable energy industry is an important measure for countries to strengthen the construction of ecological civilization.

Persons experiencing homelessness (PEH) often use hospital Emergency Department (ED) as the only source of healthcare

There is a need for positive youth development/strengths-based approaches to support the wellbeing and social inclusion of young people experiencing or at risk of homelessness

People experiencing homelessness are vulnerable to disasters and hazards and are at risk for contracting COVID-19

The vast majority of people who were unhoused in California before coronavirus swept across the state are exactly where they were. Encampments still line the streets. Shelters feel more like a risk than a refuge. And affordable housing is as elusive as ever.

Mobile broadband (MBB) is one of the critical goals in fifth-generation (5G) networks due to rising data demand. MBB provides very high-speed internet access with seamless connections

Considering the recent COVID-19 pandemic, we recognised a lack of synthesis amongst the available literature pertaining to the intersections of homelessness and pandemic response and planning. Therefore, the purpose of this review was to identify relevant peer-reviewed literature in this area to thematically produce evidence-based recommendations that would inform community planning and response amongst homeless populations.

Homelessness is a harsh reality for many people in the world. Data from Yale University estimates that roughly 150 million people worldwide were considered homeless in 2020 (Chamie, 2020). Homelessness is a worldwide crisis, and the United States is no exclusion from this dilemma.

Homelessness is a pervasive issue in society, and government policies have highlighted the need to focus on the experience of front-line staff in homelessness settings. The aim of this meta-synthesis was to draw together the available research to further understanding of the experiences of staff working with homeless people.

A growing and diversifying homeless population faces tremendous social burdens and structural barriers to health care that contribute to high morbidity and mortality. Health care for homeless people must address intersecting health and social challenges through a combination of health-related and social interventions.

People experiencing homelessness are at risk for infection during community spread of COVID-19. This interim guidance is intended to support response planning by emergency management officials, public health authorities, and homeless service providers, including overnight emergency shelters, day shelters, and meal service providers.

This report uses estimates from the Congressional Budget Office to project an unemployment scenario for the Pandemic Recession. We go on to use detailed unemployment and homeless data from the 2008 Great Recession to estimate the linkage between unemployment and homelessness and forecast the amount and type of pandemic-driven homelessness in Los Angeles, California and the United States.

Extreme poverty and homelessness are not novel topics in the United States. Homelessness appeared to be misstated as merely a problem of being without s shelter, while it is more properly viewed as the most aggravated state of a more prevalent problem. This study discusses the relationship between political partisanships as well as U.S. economic policies among people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

What are the characteristics of the homeless population in the United States?1,3 Nearly 400,000 are single and more than 150,000 are families. A total of 37,000 are veterans, 60% percent are men, and minority individuals represent more than half of the homeless population. Chronically homeless individuals are often disabled, including a not insignificant number of veterans.

Under the Biden–Harris administration, there is renewed attention on inequalities in the USA that have exacerbated vulnerability to the COVID-19 pandemic and manifested as racial and class disparities in morbidity, mortality, and vaccination.1, 2 With public health now at the centre of national priorities, there is an opportunity to reverse the decades-long dismantling of US welfare systems that has weakened public health and exacerbated racial inequities.

There is widespread energy poverty in the U.S. over the past 25 years. African-American households are more vulnerable than white and Asian households. Energy poverty witnessed the greatest growth among white households during 1990–2015. Racial energy burden varies greatly regarding energy types, end-use demands, and regions. Urgent attention should be given to the increasing number of white households in energy poverty.

Many families are one paycheck away from being swept into a cycle of poverty and homelessness in California. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed our state’s lack of capacity in addressing this widespread and growing crisis. The cost of living is sky-rocketing faster than families have the means to make adjustments. For example, a two-bedroom apartment in Anaheim rents for $2,200 a month, 37% of the average income. Many families have to move into homes with multiple generations to avoid living on the streets or in overcrowded shelters.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has a new plan to deal with California’s mentally ill but it should be fully fleshed out before enactment. Beginning in the 19th century and continuing well into the 20th, California maintained an extensive network of state mental hospitals to which people deemed to be dangers to themselves or others were committed, often for decades.

California politicians lament California’s high poverty rate, but state and local government policies hurt the poor. Life is tough for poor people in California — particularly the working poor who are trying to pay their way, but must deal with the state’s very high costs for necessities such as rent, gasoline and utilities.

Prior to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s State of the State speech, there is one item to examine that serves as a building block for all the issues the governor will address – water. Despite unexpected storms in late 2021, California is braced for another year of drought. The water we do have must move throughout the state by way of a complicated system of reservoirs, dams, canals, pipes and treatment plants. That movement is managed by an equally complicated network of federal, state and local officials.

When California shut down in March 2020, advocates for unhoused people thought the state might finally be forced to solve its homelessness crisis. To slow the spread of Covid, they hoped, officials would have to provide people living outside with stable and private shelter and housing.

Poverty is a global problem, and fighting it is a historical task faced by humanity. The outbreak of poverty crises has a certain cyclicality, and the development of economic research may react to poverty cycles.

In 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals set an ethical imperative: end extreme poverty and hunger by 2030. Microfranchising can contribute to this critical effort by offering nonprofit organizations and businesses an opportunity to rapidly scale entrepreneurship within Base of the Pyramid (BOP) markets.

The global response to the COVID-19 crisis of severely restricting international travel and business operations has been accompanied by slowing economic growth and increased levels of global poverty. The paper uniquely links ideas associated with behavioral economics, international business theories and empirical evidence with reducing poverty as we move past the COVID-19 crisis

Social workers may play an important role in the implementation of welfare policies targeted at the poor. Their norms, beliefs, and attitudes form local anti-poverty programmes and affect discretionary practices with their clients.

Recent US Census data reveals a fundamental truth: Congress has the power to make a different choice, to put families and workers first with proven-effective strategies to reduce child poverty and boost incomes for people who work but aren’t paid enough to make ends meet by expanding the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

Poverty remains a fundamental driver of mental and physical health, as well as of other human conditions that matter to those of us in public health.

Although pregnancy and the first year of life are sensitive windows for child development, we know very little about the lived experiences of mothers living in poverty or near poverty during the perinatal period; specifically, how they perceive and use public resources to support themselves and their newborn.

Economic outcomes reflect an intricate mixture of people's internal dispositions and external circumstances that are beyond their control. How, then, do people make sense of wealth and poverty?